Updated on August 14, 2018, with a summary of President Trump’s remarks last night on “windmills” and “clean coal” at a fundraiser for Rep. Claudia Tenney held in Utica, New York. A Facebook post has provided a rare window into the sausage-making...

The nation’s largest electric utilities are pouring money into political action committees and tax-exempt political organizations that work to elect governors, attorney generals and state legislators at an unprecedented rate for the industry this election cycle. Most of the cash...

The parent company of Arizona Public Service spent nearly $6.4 million in the past three months to prevent an initiative that would require the utility to use more renewable energy from gathering enough signatures to reach the ballot in November,...

Over the weekend, temperatures topped 100 degrees in Southern California (just as they did in several locations around the world), causing problems for the electric distribution system, which resulted in power outages for tens of thousands of people. The area’s...

Republican Mike DeWine continues to raise the most money from fossil fuel and utility interests in Ohio’s race for governor, but Democrat Richard Cordray has also received campaign contributions from the coal industry and lobbyists for FirstEnergy. The Energy and...

New details about FirstEnergy’s lobbying of the Trump administration and corporate airplane flights to Washington, D.C., can be found in documents obtained via FOIAs filed with the Department of Energy and Federal Aviation Administration by the Energy and Policy Institute....